This kind of piece is really a theme and variations. Another common type of piece is the Prelude and Fugue, two movements. The first is free-form, often melodic like a short sonata, or constructed of chords; the second is made like a round, like Row, Row, Row Your Boat except WAY more complicated.
Borne [borne] as a boys' name has its root in Middle English, and Borne means stream. Borne is an alternate form of Bourne (Middle English): place name.
The luminiferous aether: it was hypothesised that the Earth moves through a medium of aether that carries light. In the late 19th century, luminiferous aether, aether or ether, meaning light-bearing aether, was the postulated medium for the propagation of light. It was invoked to explain the ability of the apparently wave-based light to propagate through empty space, something that waves should not be able to do.